Former Walmart executive to head Ahold’s Giant-Landover

Ahold is an international retailing group based in the Netherlands, with powerful consumer brands in Europe and the United States. Ahold provides customers with great value and a convenient and innovative shopping experience with a wide range of products and healthy choices.

Giant Landover operates retail stores selling food, pharmacy, health and beauty care items and general merchandise in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. Giant-Landover operates 173 stores in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

As Ahold USA continues to emphasize ways it can improve its customers’ health and wellness while saving them money, a rising number of shoppers are turning to the food/drug combination store operator for their pharmacy needs. Ahold USA operates 551 pharmacies in 713 supermarkets in a dozen states across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions. Ahold’s prescription sales are estimated to be in excess of $2 billion.

Ahold USA announced the appointment of Anthony Hucker as division president of the division, also known as Giant-Landover, effective Oct. 3. Hucker will replace Don Sussman, who has served as the division’s interim president since the end of last year and will assume the role of EVP supply chain for Ahold USA. Hucker, who has worked in retailing for more than 25 years, most recently served at Walmart as corporate VP and head of the Walmart Express division, having joined the retailer in 2004.